Our US-based structured finance team is involved in advising on and developing complex tax-driven products and derivative based transactions, including credit, commodity, equity and insurance derivatives, collateralized debt obligation funds (CDOs), capital raising/arbitrage transactions, securitizations, synthetic securities, repackagings, conduits and future flow transactions.

Many transactions are designed to take advantage of cross-border arbitrages, which require access to corporate, securities and tax lawyers in multiple jurisdictions who are familiar with the latest financial technologies. Likewise, securities are increasingly marketed to investors in multiple jurisdictions, demanding that lawyers quickly and efficiently evaluate the effect of an evolving deal structure on an issuer and the investors in those jurisdictions.

Our lawyers in the US are closely linked to our worldwide structured finance team of over 200 lawyers, allowing them to access the expertise and experience of our lawyers in the European and Asian markets to address the concerns of rating agencies, financial guaranty insurance providers and other institutions that establish the standards applied to transactions around the world. We have advised on transactions involving virtually all significant asset classes.

Recent experience includes advising:

  • the equity investor on US cross-border leases involving the waste water disposal networks of the German cities of Recklinghausen and Bochum;
  • the equity investor on US cross-border leases for the waste water disposal networks of the German cities of Heidenheim, Aalen and Schwabisch Gmund;
  • the equity investor on a US cross-border lease involving the waste water disposal network of the city of Stuttgart, Germany;
  • the equity investor on a US cross-border financing involving the lease of administrative and school buildings in the city of Gelsenkirchen, Germany;
  • the equity investor on the US cross-border financing of the trade fair facilities in Cologne, Germany;
  • the equity investor on a US cross-border financing involving the railtrack infrastructure operated by Rheinische Bahngesellschaft and co-owned by Rheinbahn and the city of Dusseldorf, the first lease-to-service contract involving a railtrack infrastructure in Germany;
  • the equity investor on US cross-border leases involving freshwater distribution and treatment facilities in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, operated by Zweckverband Landeswasserversorgung and Zweckverband Bodensee-Wasserversorgung; and
  • the equity investor, on a cross-border QTE lease of a GSM network for T-Mobile Deutschland, the first German QTE lease for telecommunication equipment;
  • the equity investor on a US cross-border lease involving the waste water disposal network of the city of Ulm; and
  • the equity investor on a US cross-border financing involving the railtrack infrastructure operated by Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft and owned by the city of Duisburg.

For more information please contact Brian Rance, US managing partner or Christa Crane, business development manager.

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